The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-20
THE JoNEs-KING ROW.
The Former Publicly Insults the Latter In
an Effort 60 Create Fight.

The Former Publicly Insults the Latter in
an Effort co Create a Fight.
New YoRK, Jan. ia Washington special
TO the World says: Last night something of
sensation created at the barber-shop at Will
Iard's Hotel, when Congressman j. Floyd King,
u Louisiana, and Cuthbert B. Jones', Of the
same State, had personal encounter. It will
be remembered that for two years Mr.. Jones
nas been making vigorous war upon King, and
was the cause OF mis- defeat for reorganization.
The trouble between the two men is Of long
standing, and found its origin in a family feud
Of a number Of years ago. Last night, before
Jones left the barber-shop he turned to one of
the employees and asked if King owed any
money there, and advised the shopkeeper not to
trust him. King, at the time, was in the shop,
waiting his turn. Jones went over to where
King was sitting and opened conversation with
the Congressman by speaking unexpectedly Of
his father and mother, and using an offensive
spithet about the person to whom he was speak
ing. To all this abuse King made no reply.
Mr.. Jones repeated his language, and said that
he stood ready to prove all that he had said.
Still Mr.. King remained motionless and silent.
ordinary manner of King, laid his hand in a
semi. menacing manner upon the face of the
Louisianian, with the hope of provoking him to
resent the insults he was heaping upon him; but
there was no response. There Is scarcely any
comparison between the two men in physical
powers. Mr.. King is a powerfully built man.
weighing perhaps, 225 pounds, while Mr.. Jones
Is n small, thin, wiry nervous little fellow, who
will tip the scales at about lao pounds.
Mr.. Jones afterward said to q reporter that he
had made every attempt to provoke King to a
desire to fight to a finish. II was not armed, "
continued Mr.. Jones, 'and never carry any
weapons King has injured me and the good
name Of my family, and all l ask is the oppor-
tunity of reapng satisfaction. l have tried
every possible way to cause him to resent the
abuse have given him, but he is too much OF a
coward to meet me-"
The quarrel broke out last June. when it was
reported in Washington that MIR. Jones was to
be appointed United States consul at Callao.
The news of this brought ont an account of q
feud between the Liddell and Jones families, In
volviDg, it was said, number of assassinations
and murders. The feud began before Cuthber,
Jones was born. The Washington Sunday Her
aid published an account of the troubles, writer
by Colonel Roberts. somewhat eccentric char
acter, formerly we'll known in Washington. Tn.
following history of the feud Is told by Mr.
King: The Joneses and Liddells were wealthy
planters on the Black river. in Louisiana
There was good deal of pickering between thu
families, which eliminated, one day, in Mrs
Liddell. q young and beautiful woman, riding t.
the. Jones plantation, charging Mr. Jones will
circulating q defamatory story, and shooting
him in the face. Next day the Joneses waylait
and killed son of Mrs Lddell. The Liddell
rotaliated, and in q pitched battle three or fou
persons were killed and several wounded. 4
sort OF compromise was effected after this, bu
there were occasional encounters between tn
members of the two families. Finally tn
Jonesss, father and son. boarded steamer AM
shot General Lddell. The murdersrs wer
lodged in Jail, but that night party of Lddell'
friends took the elder Jones and one SON from
the mil and lynched them The other son
Cuthbert Built Jones, the man who INSULTS
Mr.. King, escaped by desperate leap. TIL
trouble was reopened in Washington, in Novem
Der, by the publication by Jones of a scathin
letter addressed to King, applying TO him a
sorts of offensive epithets Mr.. King, on Nov
%. published card replying to Jones and chare
Ing that he was an assassin, and declining furtf
er controversy with him.